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Robert H. Wolfe
Robert H. Wolfe

Putting People on the Map

New York Times, Sunday, March 24, 1985

56-Down : Cartographer's abbr.

Author:
Robert H. Wolfe
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 84, Avg Word Len: 5.10, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 526 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 124, Cheaters: 11, FITB: 12, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 37.5
Robert H. Wolfe has 23 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 60 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 12,920
Across
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Fellow : CHAP
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Teutonic god : WODAN
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Of a region : AREAL
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Son of Issachar : JOB
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Complete: Comb. form : HOLO
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Heath : ERICA
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Punish : AMERCE
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Canzone : ODE
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Plant of the legume family : ANIL
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Baseball brothers : ALOUS
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A state of Mexico : SONORA
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Brooder : HEN
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Actor on a New York river? : ROCKUPONTHEHUDSON
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Ayr negative : NAE
30
Dreyfus-trial subject : TREASON
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Serried : DENSE
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Ouphe : ELF
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Snuggeries : DENS
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Task : STINT
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Hamlets : DORPS
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Barracks bigwigs : MAJORS
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Cabal : PLOT
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Cries of surprise : AHS
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A leap, in fencing : VOLT
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Borders : ABUTS
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Shoot the breeze : RAP
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"___ in thy scutcheon ... ": Cervantes : ABLOT
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Medical suffix : EMIA
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Brooks and Ferrer : MELS
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Michigan actor? : ROBERTOFLANSING
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He schooled Samuel : ELI
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Ed or Leon : AMES
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Period from B.C. to TV : EON
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Queen of fiction : ELLERY
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Red dye : EOSIN
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Reproach : BLAME
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Election group : SLATE
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Outcome : EFFECT
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Homophone for a libation : AIL
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A result of nebulization : MIST
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Swathe : LAP
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Paradisiacal Jeannie? : BARBARAFROMEDEN
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___-mountain (leopard) : CATA
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A hit song in 1943 : AMOR
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N.Y. city : OLEAN
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Kier : VAT
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Dead duck : GONER
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Sequential notes : REMI
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Sydney is its cap. : NSW
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Sequence of ecological stages : SERE
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Awaited judgment : PENDED
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Imam's world : ISLAM
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Ahead of, on the briny : AFORE
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Liberal group : ARTS
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Ace : ONE
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Former Yankee slugger : MARIS
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Penitence : REMORSE
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Spanish nobleman : DON
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Ohio politician? : GROVEROFCLEVELAND
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Venerable : OLD
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Give oxygen to : AERATE
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Unique : ALONE
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April 13, e.g. : IDES
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Psyche part : EGO
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One of the Antilles : LESSER
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Puerto ___ : RICAN
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Where sudd grows : NILE
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Emulated Edwin Moses : RAN
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He wrote "I Can't Sleep": 1936 : ODETS
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Tearful : MOIST
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Branchia : GILL
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Outline : CHART
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Credit : HONOR
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Gobel's wife : ALICE
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Cloth patterns : POLKADOTS
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Bola and bolo : WEAPONS
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Acrylic fabrics : ORLONS
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A lord in "The Winter's Tale" : DION
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___ above (better than) : ACUT
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La Salle contemporary : NASH
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Bottom line : AMOUNT
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Cleaves : RENDS
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Irregular : EROSE
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Kind of phobia : ACRO
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Inclined : LEANED
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Hibernian actor? : JOHNFROMIRELAND
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Concert halls : ODEA
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Nota ___ : BENE
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Blanched : ASHEN
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Addicts : USERS
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Make the copy right : EDIT
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Wimbledon rout : LOVESET
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Slack part of a sail : SLAB
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Small shark : TOPE
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Friend of Trajan and Tacitus : PLINY
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Part of a hippocerf : STAG
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Russell role : MAME
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Co-inventor of cordite : ABEL
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British actress? : JULIEFROMLONDON
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Nol-___ (drop a suit) : PROS
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A loser to Franklin : ALF
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___-one (golf thrills) : HOLESIN
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Booths : STALLS
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Monad : ATOM
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Vomer, e.g. : BONE
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Certain cars : RENTALS
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Sphere : REALM
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Cartographer's abbr. : NLAT
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On the Andaman : ASEA
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One-millionth of a meter : MICRON
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"Monty Python's Life ___" : OFBRIAN
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Theodosia Goodman : BARA
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Alex Karras, once : LION
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Famed chair designer : EAMES
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Boundary : METE
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To ___ (exactly) : ATEE
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Cowboy's pal : PARD
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Adriatic port : BARI
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Select group, with "the" : FEW
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Always : EVER
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"Where Eagles ___": MacLean : DARE
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Comforter's activity : CONSOLING
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"___ to the Church ... " : GETME
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Just fair : SOSO
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Obviate : PREVENT
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Kind of maniac : MEGALO
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Crests : ARETES
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An incendiary : FIRER
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Punta ___, city in Chile : ARENAS
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Common code : MORSE
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Salt's "Halt!" : AVAST
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They're found in circles : RADII
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Fishhook attachment : SNELL
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Lincoln's inadequate cousin : EDSEL
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Energumen : DOER
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Kafka character : OLGA
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Oboist's purchase : REED
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Granger's quarters : FARM
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Award for TV commercials : CLIO
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Places : LOCI

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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